Improvement in coach-harness pads



R. M. SELLECK.

COACH-HARNESS mm No.173f819. Patented Feb. 22,1876.

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N.FETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT M. SELLEGK, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

,lM PROYEMENT IN COACH-HARNESS PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,8 l9, dated February 22, 1876; application filed May 10, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT M. SELLEoK, of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Coach-Harness Pads, of which the following is a specification I make the metallic frame for the pad tubular at each side and composedof two plates, one of which is trough-shaped and receives the other or cap-plate that is riveted in place. The nuts for the tenets are introduced from the ends of the tubular frames, and the shanks of the terrets pass through the cap-plates into the nuts. The straps that pass beneath the cap-plate contain the nuts into which thepadscrews pass, and hold the parts firmly together.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side view of the metal pad-frame; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section; Figs. 3 and 4 are crosssections at the lines so and y, respectively; and Fig. 5 is a cross-section, showing a modification in the pad-frame.

The metal frame is made of the troughshaped side pieces a a, united together by the central portion b, having a hole through which the shank of the check-rein hook at passes, and is secured by the nut 2 in a recess below. There are also other openings through the side portions 66 a, through which the tacks, tufting, or stitches pass.

Each side piece a is provided with a covering-plate, j, that is of a shape to fit into its place and leave the frame hollow or tubular, and open at the ends in order that the nuts g of the'terrets h maybe passed in at the open ends and slide to place without disturbing the housing or coverings of the pad, and the terrets are screwed into said nuts to hold them firmly to the cap-plates of the hollow frames. These cap-plates fare secured to their places by rivets 5, and when these capfplates are of malleable cast-iron the rivets may be cast therewith.

In cases where the edges of the side pieces a rise above the cap-plates f, as seen in Fig. 3, there will be a recess formed, in which the leather housing a will lie, and the material lthat covers the padding Z will be brought up and over the edges of the frame a, and secured down into the angles of the recess by cement or otherwise. But.

where the cap-plate f rests upon the edges of the frame a, as seen in Fig. 5, the covering material I will be drawn over the tubular frame and attached at the surface of the plate f by catch-threads or lacing from one edge of the covering to the other, and in that case the leather housing '6 will be finished at its edges by the binding-strip t, that is folded, attached to the under surface of the leather, and spread both upward at the edge of the leather and down ward in a T form to cover the joint between the housing and the'pad-covering Z. This mode of securing the binding to the un der side of the leather-housing is to be distin- 'guished from a binding that has before been used where the folded strip is sewed to an intermediate layer of leather and is not as strong, neat, and close-fitting as when secured to the leather housing itself.

The tubular metal frame, made in the form shown in Fig. 5, may bejapanned, and it may have a covering of muslin, pasted or otherwise attached, and then japanned,and this covering may be attached to the metal frame before the padding or other covering is applied, to preserve the metal from rust or injury, if desired.

In order to make an easy and gradual termination to the metal frame where the girthstrap passes off from the pad, I employ the end pieces a, of either sheet metal or leather, attached to the ends of such side pieces a, and provided with edges or flanges for the strap o to lie between, and covered. These end pieces a will bend by the pressure to the shape of the animal, and appear much more graceful than an abrupt termination of the cast -metal frame.

The nuts 10 for the pad-screws 11 are at tions at and cap-plates f, substantially as set forth.

2. The harness-pad frame composed of the trough-shaped frame a and cap-plates f above such trough, leaving the ends of the frame open for the terret-nuts g, to be inserted from the ends, as set forth.

3. The removable side-straps 4), having the nuts 10 attached to the under sides, and inserted into the open ends of the tubular frame a f, in combination with the padscrews 11 that pass through the plate f, as set forth.

4. The pad-framemade with the edges of the metal at extending above the plate f, and over which the covering material 1 is drawn and secured, in combination with the housingleather 5 introduced within the recess thus formed in themetal pad-frame, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the tubular'me- ROBERT M. SELLECK. Witnesses:

GEo. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

